Of all the talks during the funerals this week, I found that of Meghan McCain the most moving. We have a granddaughter Meghan and noted several weeks ago that I am related to Meghan Markle, but it is the eulogy today by Meghan McCain that I found so moving. When I was young, my mother had a copy of the poems of Robert Service when she read to me and my brothers. I have that book and have read "The Cremation of the Sam McGee to our children and several of our great-grandchildren who live with us. To hear it quoted today brought tears to my eyes.

I noted in an earlier post how I had a photograph taken with John McCain back in 2004 but the eulogy brought me even closer to John McCain.

Ms. McCain is cut from the same cloth as her Dad. Her talk, as well of those of former Presidents Bush and Obama, were a tribute to what America is about, and should be. McCain never said that he was always right. He did what he thought was right and backed it up.

We are often made from the same cloth as our parents. As I think of the poetry of Service I am also reminded of some poets I know in my family history. I am a Greenleaf descendant and related to John Greenleaf Whittier and also related to Longfellow.

I am not a big supporter of many McCain (father and daughter) views, but her politics seem pretty close to those of the man whom Arizonans elected for this term.

AZ has changed a lot in the last few years, but the senate is constitutionally supposed to reflect longer-term judgments than the house. So a good case could be made for sticking Megan in the office for the rest of her father's official tenure.

Arizona governor Doug Ducey, who will appoint the person to serve out McCain's term, will attempt to make the current President happy. He is also up for re-election and does not want to anger the supporters of the current President. I imagine that Ducey wants the Senate seat for himself in the future, also. For those reasons I am pretty sure that he will not appoint a member of the McCain family. As an Arizonan, I wish he would. But I learned long ago not to expect sanity in Arizona politics. My guess is that he will appoint someone who will agree not to run for the seat when their term is up.

Conflicted Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I was wondering if I was the ONLY ONE who thought> she semed angry, defensive and resentful, but> I’ve read several comments from others observing> her eulogy the same way.

Ignore for a second McCain's politics, or whether or not you had any fondness for him.

This was a daughter who loved her father, and who was loved by him. As he was slowly dying of inevitable cancer, he was personally and publicly attacked and called names -- basically for no good reason.

In that context, isn't some anger, defensiveness, and resentment understandable?

I'm not a McCain fan either. But I do understand a daughter's love and devotion to her father. And vice-versa.

There are strange things done in the midnight sunBy the men who moil for gold;The Arctic trails have their secret talesThat would make your blood run cold;The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,But the queerest they ever did seeWas that night on the marge of Lake LebargeI cremated Sam McGee.

With a double family tragedy in my mind the one touching comment that stays with me is something Joe Biden said in his eulogy. Touching on tragic losses in his own family he promised the grieving McCains that healing would come and that they would know it when they thought of their loved one "and a smile comes to your lips before a tear comes to your eye." A beautiful sentiment.

Thank you, Nightingale. My only nephew's two sons tragically both dead in a 9 month time period. A tragedy enlarged by the distance of miles between us and the rest of the family though there are no words that can provide meaningful comfort.